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Includes 30 lessons and reading instruction on 16 CDs, plus a reading booklet

Hungarian is spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in 7 neighboring countries. The Hungarian name for the language is Magyar. Pimsleur's Hungarian teaches the "standard" Hungarian, which is based on the North-Eastern dialect spoken throughout Hungary.

The Pimsleur® Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. Completely portable, easily downloadable, and lots of fun. You’ll be speaking and understanding in no time flat!Hungarian, Comprehensive includes 15 hours of spoken language practice and one hour of reading instruction in thirty, 30-minute lessons.

In the first 10 lessons, you’ll cover the basics: saying hello, asking for or giving information, scheduling a meal or a meeting, asking for or giving basic directions, and much more. You’ll be able to handle minimum courtesy requirements, understand much of what you hear, and be understood at a beginning level, but with near-native pronunciation skills.

In the next 10 lessons, you’ll build on what you’ve learned. Expand your menu, increase your scheduling abilities from general to specific, start to deal with currency and exchanging money, refine your conversations and add over a hundred new vocabulary items. You’ll understand more of what you hear, and be able to participate with speech that is smoother and more confident.

In the final 10 lessons, you’ll be speaking and understanding at an intermediate level. In this phase, more directions are given in the target language, which moves your learning to a whole new plane. Lessons include shopping, visiting friends, going to a restaurant, plans for the evening, car trips, and talking about family. You’ll be able to speak comfortably about things that happened in the past and make plans for the future.

Reading Lessons are included and begin in Lesson 11 to provide you with an introduction to reading Hungarian. These lessons, which total about one hour, are designed to teach you to sound out words with correct pronunciation and accent. A Reading Booklet to be used with the audio lessons is also included in PDF format

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Includes 30 lessons and reading instruction on 16 CDs, plus a reading booklet

Hungarian is spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in 7 neighboring countries. The Hungarian name for the language is Magyar. Pimsleur's Hungarian teaches the "standard" Hungarian, which is based on the North-Eastern dialect spoken throughout Hungary.

The Pimsleur® Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. Completely portable, easily downloadable, and lots of fun. You’ll be speaking and understanding in no time flat!Hungarian, Comprehensive includes 15 hours of spoken language practice and one hour of reading instruction in thirty, 30-minute lessons.

In the first 10 lessons, you’ll cover the basics: saying hello, asking for or giving information, scheduling a meal or a meeting, asking for or giving basic directions, and much more. You’ll be able to handle minimum courtesy requirements, understand much of what you hear, and be understood at a beginning level, but with near-native pronunciation skills.

In the next 10 lessons, you’ll build on what you’ve learned. Expand your menu, increase your scheduling abilities from general to specific, start to deal with currency and exchanging money, refine your conversations and add over a hundred new vocabulary items. You’ll understand more of what you hear, and be able to participate with speech that is smoother and more confident.

In the final 10 lessons, you’ll be speaking and understanding at an intermediate level. In this phase, more directions are given in the target language, which moves your learning to a whole new plane. Lessons include shopping, visiting friends, going to a restaurant, plans for the evening, car trips, and talking about family. You’ll be able to speak comfortably about things that happened in the past and make plans for the future.

Reading Lessons are included and begin in Lesson 11 to provide you with an introduction to reading Hungarian. These lessons, which total about one hour, are designed to teach you to sound out words with correct pronunciation and accent. A Reading Booklet to be used with the audio lessons is also included in PDF format

Hi, my name is Glenn, and I use the Hungarian course every day and I repeat each Unit for a week (7 times total). I think overall it's a great product and I love learning new things. I think it's very simple and easy to use, and although it's memory based repetition, for me, it works. With that said, I do have a few suggestions: 1. Please make sure that words are properly pronounced in the foreign language...for example, in Hungarian an "S" is an "sh" sound, not an "S" as in English. It's pretty bad when the "Teacher" is saying "Budapest" which is the capital of Hungary as it sounds like in English, when in reality it should sound like "Budapesht." 2. I realize the pupil is supposed to repeat the "native speakers," but after the pupil learns the word or phrase, why repeat the native speakers? Why not say it BEFORE the native speakers? That way, the person learning knows he or she REALLY knows and UNDERSTANDS the word or phrase. Repeating things after the person has had a chance to learn it can cause the person to not really learn it for themselves, but instead just copy what the native speaker says. If this was the real world, you wouldn't always have the luxury of a translator...or a phrase book. So, please, add more time before the native speaker speaks up. I either have to pause the lesson or say the phrase very fast and barely get it out before the native speaker speaks up. 3. I realize there is different dialects, but when learning a new language, different dialects can throw a person off - dialects should be the same...Each word should sound EXACTLY the same with every native speaker in the Units. Dialects can be learned later once fundamentals are established. 4. Please make sure the correct term or word that is to be learned is the CORRECT way of saying something the first time it's said...for example...in Unit 1 the teacher says to say "English" you say "Angolul." So, you learn that, but then he throws a curveball...to say "English" it,s "Angol" and "in English" is "Angolul." So now the person has to relearn the word / phrase, and that can get irritating and confusing. And it can make the student think, "Gee, if the teacher got that word or phrase wrong the first time, how can I trust the teacher (or this program) to get other things right the first time?" So far, that's all I've noticed. Other than that, great product and I highly recommend it. I would TOTALLY get more levels of the Hungarian language if you ever came out with them! I think Hungarian is a beautiful, strong, and unique language! Thank you for making a wonderful product!Sincerely, Glenn

From the first lesson I felt this program is serious and professional. Made by people who understand the needs of those who want to learn a "second language". For this reason I gave a friend a English course as a gift!!Congratulations!

My wife is from Hungary, so I've been meaning to learn the language for some time now. I listen to the lessons in my car on my way to and from work. I've learned a lot!I started out with the 10-lesson Basic Hungarian. I was very happy with it, so when I was done, I purchased the entire 30-lesson set on MP3.I was a bit disappointed, though, that the first 10 lessons were identical to the 10-lesson Basic Hungarian CD set. My impression in reading the product descriptions was that they were different.

I use the product at least once a day, usually in the morning commute to work.(I drive) and have CD player in the dash.While driving I have time for one lesson.The background noise makes things a little difficult so I tend to review the lessons more than once.

Depending on the type of day (workload and fatigue) at work, I may review on the return trip at home.

I have studied Hungarian before and this program is head and shoulders above all the others.

I have made much better head way here than ever before. One thing that might a help is to start the read exercises as early as lesson 9.

The ability to park this program on my Mac Book Pro and my Ipod is terrific. Occasionaly I plug it in when I go to bed -- and go to sleep with it.

I Like the fact that you have at least two voices on the CDs-- gives a better understanding of the slight variations in pronunciation.

“After completing Rosetta Stone, I still coundn't really SAY anything, I knew vocabulary but struggled with making up sentences and conversing. Pimsleur is great at forcing me to recall phrases and sentences, really allowing me to converse more effectively. Pimsleur also does a much better job with grammar.”